Schedule Spring 2026
All workshop events take place virtually on Monday, 12:00-13:00 (1:00 pm) Eastern Time (UTC−05:00).
Links to workshop papers will be active as events draw closer here.
Upcoming Workshops
February 9 “Deferring Punishment from Liberalizing Trade: The Political Consequences of Tariff Phaseouts in NAFTA” Eric Thai University of California, San Diego Moderator: Ghita Chraibi
February 16 “Democracy and Financial Disintermediation: A Conjoint Experiment in Peru” Ghita Chraibi University of Virginia Moderator: Adam Hobbs
February 23 “The Political Economy of Concessional Climate Finance: Evidence from the GCF and CIF” Abdulrasheed Isah ETH Zurich Moderator: Enock Bulime
March 2 “From Altruism to Advantage: The Geostrategic and Geoeconomic Turn in EU and US Development Policy (2015-2025)” Benjamin Smith University of Oxford Moderator: Eric Thai
March 9 “How Sovereign Wealth Funds Shape Host Country Policy” Andrew T. Fairley and John Hicks University of Wisconsin-Madison Moderator: Abdulrasheed Isah
March 16 “Environmental Costs of Trade War: Evidence from Brazil’s Soybean Exports and Deforestation” Ziwen Zu & Yujin Zhang University of California, San Diego Moderator: Keeheon Lee
March 23 ISA Week; Join us for Happy Hour 😊！
March 30 “Industrial Policies against Tariff: the Case of the Solar Photovoltaic Industry” Junda Li University of Wisconsin-Madison Moderator: Yue Lin
April 6 “Does gender parity translate into substantive representation? Evidence from legislative debates in Mexico, 2003–2027” Aideé Núñez University of Toronto Moderator: Isabel Pham
April 13 “Trading Peace for War: Market Embeddedness and Military Support in the U.S. Financial Sector” Brandon Sullivan Boston University Moderator: Kexin Bai
April 20 “Striking but Fleeting: How Economic Security Shapes Multinational Firms’ Nonmarket Strategies” Yue Lin University of California, Berkeley Moderator: Brandon Sullivan
April 27 “When Education Spending Works: Tax Policy and Human Capital Formation in Africa” Enock Bulime Kansas State University Moderator: Aideé Núñez
May 4 “Global Trade Landscape Shift and the Empowerment of Domestic Sustainability Standards: Insight from Indonesia’s Palm Oil Industry” Keeheon Lee Georgetown University Moderator: Yujin Zhang
May 11 “Air Cargo Competition and the Implication of Trade” Isabel Pham Vienna University of Business and Economics Moderator: Junda Li